Improvement in spool-holders



ANITED STATES PATENT Lffl-1 ERICE.

JOHN C. KOCH AND BERNARD J. BECK, OE BROOKLYN, AssIGNORs rrO KOCH, sONs a CO., OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

` Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. l 07,786, dated September 2, 1870.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known thatwe, JOHN C. KOCH and BERNARD J. BECK, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and Stateof New York, have invented an Improved Spool-Holder; andthe following is declared to be a correct description thereof. d

This holder is for spools of cotton, thread, or silk, and 4designed for the use of ladies in their sewing; and we have shown in the drawings the spool-holders combined with a box for holding scissors, needles, 8mo., and to this -artiole asa whole we have given the name of The Beauty.

This invention consists in a box with a movable rod, upon which the spools are placed, a swinging cover, perforated `for the thread to pass through; and contractile springs to keep the cover closed. Boxes for holding spools, and drawers for the same purpose, with openings for the threads to be drawn out, have been used before. Our invention'is distinguished from the same by the hinged swing- `ing lid provided with perforations andcOn-.

tractile springs, said perforations being used as the guide for the thread that is drawn off the spools. This swinging lid is more convenient than the devices before employed, because the 'same is easily turned over for the thread to be passed through the perforation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of two spool-holders and an intervening work-box, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with one of the lids thrownover.

The work-box a is shown as between the boxes b b, each of which is provided with a cover, c, hinged at d, and ttedwith a contractile india-rubber cord or other spring at e, that tends to keep the lid shut or to hold it steady when open, as seen by dotted lines in Fig. l, so that the thread can be easily passed from one of the spools through one of the Openings t', after which the cover can be turned back to place. The spoolsf of thread or silk are shown as upon the movable rod r, that is set at its en'ds'in notches at the end of the box b.

' A spool-holder made as aforesaid is a new and useful article of manufacture, and one that is superior to those before constructed in the features named.

We claim as our invention- The spool-holder made of a box with a perforated swinging cover, combined with eontractilesprings and the rod for carrying the spools, as set forth.

Dated this 8th day of August, 1870.

JOHN C. KOCH. y B. J. BECK. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, GHAs. H. SMITH. 

